Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium - Bridges - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199279678 - February 15, 2007
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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium

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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium

An exploration of the enormous impact that the Persian Wars, fought in the fifth century BC, have had on Western ideas of history, liberty, resistance, and national identity. Sixteen internationally acclaimed classical scholars discuss treatments of these famous wars in art, theatre, philosophy, poetry, biography, and modern cinema and fiction.


472 pages, numerous halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 15, 2007
ISBN13 9780199279678
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 462
Dimensions 160 × 240 × 25 mm   ·   931 g
Editor Bridges, Emma (, Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University)
Editor Hall, Edith (, Professor of Classics and Drama, Royal Holloway, and Co-Director, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)
Editor Rhodes, P. J. (, Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham)

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